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SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. (SMCC) used last week's SunWorld show here to introduce its new SPARCserver 1000 and announce that it is working with Banyan Systems, Inc. to integrate VINES into Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s Solaris operating system running on SPARC computers.
Sun, in Mountain View, Calif., revealed some details about the Spring Project, its effort to develop a new network-capable operating system.
The debut of SMCC's SPARCserver 1000, which was expected (NW, May 10, page 6), fills the last hole in Sun's rightsizing strategy, said Scott McNealy, Sun chairman and chief executive officer. The SPARCserver 1000 is designed to work in departments with 50 to 500 users running applications that serve the financial, retailing, manufacturing, telecommunications and transportation industries, the company said.
The SPARCserver 1000, about the size of a laser printer, is basically a smaller version of the high-end 20-processor SPARCserver 2000. Bundled with SunSoft, Inc.'s Solaris 2.2 Unix-based operating system, the SPARCserver 1000 holds between one and eight 50-MHz scalable processor architecture processors, from 32M to 2G bytes of random-access memory, and up to 8.5G bytes of internal and...